Mike Ferner

November 9, 2007

Peace activists occupy campaign headquarters of bipartisan hawks. More to follow.

November 1, 2007

If it gets the distribution it deserves, “Meeting Resistance”will unhinge the way millions of Americans see their country’s role in the world.

Posted October 10, 2007

by Pham Binh
His third combat wound in Vietnam led to the beginning of his political transformation. Before that traumatic event he “thought life was drinking beer, chasing girls and listening to rock and roll.” Shortly before the Tet Offensive in 1968, Dave was involved in a night time firefight near the Cambodian border. He saw someone approaching his foxhole but held his fire until he saw the barrel of an AK-47 and a muzzle flash. He opened fire, killing the Vietnamese soldier.

The next morning, someone congratulated him, saying, “here’s the gook you killed.” But to Dave, he wasn’t a “gook.” He began to wonder: did that man have a girlfriend? What about his mother? And he realized that he had lived while the other man died only because of pure, dumb luck.

October 2, 2007

WAUKEGAN—A judge in the 19th Circuit Court of Illinois today dismissed trespassing charges against an antiwar activist stemming from a civil disobedience demonstration last year at the nation’s command center for processing military recruits.

October 1, 2007

WAUKEGAN—After five trips to an Illinois court for a trial it seemed would never happen, the judge decided the cops and the prosecutor had no reason to arrest me in July 2006.